Deal: Balatro with Dice Roguelike Drops to $5.60 on Steam

A Winning Formula Reimagined

The success of Balatro has shown how well classic card and gambling mechanics can work when combined with roguelike progression, build variety and clever risk-based decisions. Dice With Death follows a similar formula, but replaces poker cards with dice. The game comes from Sea Glass Games, the indie studio founded by YouTuber and developer Connagh Hawkins, also known as Merchant. Dice With Death is currently 60% off on Steam and costs $5.59 instead of $13.99. According to SteamDB, this is its lowest price to date; previous discounts topped out at 50%.

Gambling With Your Afterlife

In Dice With Death, players are already dead but receive one final chance to escape the afterlife. To do so, they must face Death himself in a seemingly friendly but dangerous dice game. Those who defeat him across several duels collect new dice, relics and special abilities, build increasingly powerful combinations and, ideally, cheat Death. Useful dice results are kept, the remaining dice are rerolled and risk-based decisions have to be made again and again: bank the points safely as damage or keep rolling for a stronger combination? A bad roll can ruin the entire turn, while successful combos stack damage, generate armor, enable healing or build up poison. This is where the core tension comes from: Is the safe damage enough, or is the next roll worth the risk?

Critical And Community Acclaim

The gaming website Softpedia awarded Dice With Death 8.5 out of 10 in its review, praising its exciting risk-reward mechanics, wide variety of relics and dice as well as its different character strategies. The four playable characters each have their own playstyle, which adds to the replay value. Criticism was aimed at the gameplay, which can become repetitive over time, and the thin story. There is also a strong luck factor, which can quickly lead to frustration, as bad rolls can undermine even the best strategy. The Steam community is impressed as well: 92% of more than 700 user reviews are positive. Dice With Death is also Steam Deck Verified and should therefore run without issues.

Pricing and Availability Details

Dic With Death is currently 60% off on Steam and costs $5.59 instead of $13.99. According to SteamDB, this is its lowest price to date; previous discounts topped out at 50%. The discounted price or deal mentioned in this item was available at the time of writing and may be subject to time restrictions and/or limited unit availability.